Cookies Are the Stars of Sweet & Salzig

Cinnamon zimtsterne cookies from Sweet & Salzig.CreditCreditTony Cenicola/The New York Times

Inspired by nostalgia for home, Katja Haecker started Sweet & Salzig, featuring sweet and savory cakes, tarts and cookies made from family recipes from the Schwabenland region of Germany, near France and Switzerland. She began selling her baked goods last year at the weekend markets Smorgasburg and Brooklyn Flea, and now has a website. For Christmas, she offers gently spiced zimtsterne cinnamon cookies, above, along with honey lebkuchen and sugar-dusted stollen, plain or with a marzipan filling, the better to keep it moist. Visit her stand at Smorgasburg’s winter market, and you’ll find other items like her sauerkraut tart, onion cakes, poppy-seed cakes and strudels. Some of her items are also sold at Schaller & Weber on the Upper East Side: Zimtsterne, $18 for nine cookies, sweetandsalzig.com.

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